Friday, June 15, 2012

#43

1%er – Tomorrow Will be Worse c32

A live recording consisting of a
malfunctioning synthesizer, tape noise, and what I assume is someone
dragging around heavy furniture (there are a lot of *thuds* and
scraping noises), Tomorrow Will be Worse is a colossal yawn inducer.
I get the feeling that 1%er consists of arty types who would just
argue that I can't appreciate their creation and entirely missed the
“metamorphosis of sound” on the album. Nah, I got it dudes; it
started off with a bunch of blip sounds and ended with rumbling
noises. Freakin' sonic wizards, right here...

I can't tell you how long I've been
waiting for Black Velvet Stereo to release a full length album. BVS
has quickly risen to be one of my favorite groups and Destroy This
Town does not disappoint. The dark, harsher drones of Iron Trees are not as prevalent here, with most of the tracks being crisp ambient waves that evolved out of Metal Rain Machine. It's incredible.
There's a massive sci-fi vibe throughout the album, like it's the
soundtrack to a Philip K. Dick novel. Unfortunately physical copies
of this were limited to some ridiculously small number like 15 or 20,
but luckily for you Black Velvet Stereo has made the album available
digitally on it's bandcamp. This is a must have.

Damn, Obnubilato Incesto Semen is going
to plow into you like a bulldozer. Playing fast, thrashy black metal,
I'm digging what Nyx has to offer. Surprisingly, they incorporate
the occasional melodic breakdown in a song or two, but it actually
works really well, adding some complexity to their sound. The
skilled level of musicianship and good production makes this feel
like a professional label album rather then a demo release. Keep an
eye out for these guys, I have a feeling they're gonna be making a
name for themselves real fast.

Fuck yeeeees! First up is Pizza Hi-Five
who rip through 12 tracks of blistering grindcore. I wont play the
“reminded me a little Agathocles” card, but there's definitely
some mincecore influence in there. I'm diggin everything about Pizza
Hi-Five, right down to the song that has goofball hand clap solos. On the flip is
Powercup, who is apparently all about power tools, home improvement,
and contractors. Yea, like all 13 of their songs mention those
topics. Their sound is a little more simplistic, straight forward style of grind, but it's just as fast and sick. You like grind? Then
why haven't you snagged a copy of this already?